Hours after March on Washington, protesters scattered throughout city, blocking roads and yelling at police Washington Post
Tens of thousands join Get Your Knee Off Our Necks march in Washington DC Guardian
In photos: Thousands gather at Lincoln Memorial to protest police brutality
U.S. political divide becomes increasingly violent, rattling activists and police Washington Post
Kenosha Sheriff’s Racist Rant Follows Pattern of Fraternizing with White Supremacists MPN
Jacob Blake’s father: “My son has not been afforded the rights of a human” Axios
Paramedic Speaks Out on Police Use of Ketamine Injections Intercept
Sports strikes
The WNBA Made the NBA Strike Possible Slate
Let’s call athletes workers, and let’s call these NBA protests what they were – strikes The Conversation
Professional Athletes Are Showing America Just How Powerful Labor Really Is Dave Zirin
BREAKING: NHL Cancels All Playoff Games To Protest Shooting of Jacob Blake TotalProSports
Kareem Abdul-Jabar: Athletes Have Rekindled the Ember of Hope
Marsha P. Johnson, late LGBTQ activist, to get monument in N.J. hometown NJ.com
N.J. teen who held Black Lives Matter protest gets hit with $2,500 bill for police overtime NJ.com
State Law Lets Cops Steal Cars of Innocent People, and They’ve Done it 14,000 Times in 3 Years
Indigenous Peoples
Capitalist crisis
The Fed in a hole Michael Roberts
With Second Stimulus Checks on Hold, Americans Spend Less at the Grocery Store WSJ
Grocery prices are skyrocketing, and it couldn’t come at a worse time for American households Business Insider
Everything at the grocery store is getting more expensive CNN Business
MGM Resorts To Fire 18,000 Employees, A Quarter Of Its Workforce
Trump’s Payroll Tax Deferment Plan Goes Into Effect Forbes
Trump’s August 8 executive action temporarily suspending payroll tax collections came as negotiations in Congress deadlocked over a new coronavirus stimulus package. Earlier this month Trump said if he was reelected, he would get rid of the payroll taxes permanently, though White House officials said afterward such a plan isn’t currently under consideration. If Trump were able to permanently cut payroll taxes, and if such a law went into effect on January 1, 2021, Social Security payments would run out by mid 2023, according to Social Security Chief Actuary Stephen Goss.
Private jet companies scored a pile of federal aid meant for airlines and small businesses, boosting the industry as other sectors collapsed Business Insider
The Measure of Everything: David McNally’s Materialist History of Money Left Voice
According to McNally, accounts of the emergence of money have been, problematically, centered on barter and trade. What these ignore is the decisive role of the state, war, and slavery in money’s emergence, and its continued centrality to warfare, violence, and exploitation.
The DEA seized a retired railroad engineer’s life savings BoingBoing
Hurricane Laura topples Louisiana Confederate monument weeks after officials voted to keep it Fox5NY
US Tech Stocks Are Now Worth More Than the Entire European Stock Market CNBC
Boeing pulls eight 787 jets from service over structural issue Reuters
Lower-income students are paying the price for the global laptop shortage Vox
What?
Top general says no role for military in presidential vote AP
Climate crisis
In Phoenix, rising temperatures day and night kill more people each year Arizona Republic
It’s not just desert cities that are threatened by hotter summer temperatures. Deadly heat is on the rise across the United States.
China
Every time Pompeo opens his mouth, Chinese people love their country even more: US vlogger
Has China Already Won? You Bet Forbes
The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response Quillette
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